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2025 in Canadian television

The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2025. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

Upcoming events

January

Date Event Source
1 Rogers Sports & Media's new agreement for Warner Bros. Discovery lifestyle and factual brands, announced in June 2024, takes effect. New versions of five WBD-licensed channel brands previously licensed to Bell Media or Corus Entertainment will launch under Rogers ownership, with other affected brands available through Citytv+. Five Discovery-branded channels owned by Bell will rebrand, two adopting new brands licensed from NBCUniversal. [1][2]

Programs

Programs debuting in 2025

Start date Show Channel Source
January 6 Saint-Pierre CBC Television [3]
January 7 North of North
February 10 Novelette Is Trying OUTtv [4]
February 25 Small Achievable Goals CBC Television [3]
TBA Bad Trips Crave [5]
Beer Budget Reno Home [6]
Big Burger Battle Flavour
Building Baeumler Home
Drag Brunch Saved My Life Crave [7]
Life Is Messy Home [6]
Locals Welcome CBC Television [8]
My Pet Ate What? Animal Planet [9]
One Day We'll All Be Dead Crave [10]
Pamela's Cooking with Love Flavour [6]
Queen of the Castle CTV Life [9]
Rentovation Home [6]
Revival CTV Sci-Fi [9]
Shipwreck Kings Discovery [9]
Snotty Nose Rez Kids CBC Television [11]
Sounds Black History [12]
Super Team Canada Crave [13]
Yukon Rescue History [12]

Specials

Start date Show Channel Source
March 30 Juno Awards of 2025 CBC [14]
November 16 112th Grey Cup CTV, TSN
Dates TBA 13th Canadian Screen Awards CBC
2025 Canadian Country Music Awards CTV
27th Quebec Cinema Awards Noovo

Networks and services

Network launches

  • Discovery[a] (January 1, 2025)
  • Food Network[a] (January 1, 2025)
  • HGTV[a] (January 1, 2025)
  • Investigation Discovery[a] (January 1, 2025)
  • Magnolia Network[a] (January 1, 2025)

Network rebrandings

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e New channel operated by Rogers Sports & Media, under a brand previously used by a different channel
  2. ^ a b Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Bell Media

References

  1. ^ Thiessen, Connie (August 28, 2024). "Rogers outlines plans to launch new channels". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
  2. ^ Thiessen, Connie (2024-10-17). "Bell to bring USA Network, Oxygen True Crime to Canada". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  3. ^ a b Jamie Casemore, "CBC sets winter 2025 streaming, broadcast lineup". Playback, November 28, 2024.
  4. ^ Kelly Townsend, "OutTV commissions Vancouver scripted series, renews five titles". Playback, June 6, 2024.
  5. ^ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Lakeland Today, June 6, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d Connie Thiessen, "Corus unveils more programming details around rebranded Home Network, Flavour Network". Broadcast Dialogue, October 21, 2024.
  7. ^ Megan LaPierre, "Priyanka Helms New TV Show 'Drag Brunch Saved My Life'". Exclaim!, June 6, 2024.
  8. ^ Justin Anderson, "Food format “Locals Welcome,” new docs among CBC’s 2024-25 slate". RealScreen, May 23, 2024.
  9. ^ a b c d Jesse Whittock, "Canada’s Crave Confirms U.S. & UK Titles & Will Arnett Voice Role In ‘Super Team Canada’ As Streamer Aims To Topple Rivals: 'We Know We Can Do More'. Deadline Hollywood, June 7, 2024.
  10. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "CTV adds homegrown baking contest, quiz show while Crave leans into edgy comedies". Toronto Star, June 9, 2022.
  11. ^ Jesse Whittock, "CBC’s 2024-25 Slate Includes Netflix Comedy, Sitcom From ‘Baroness Von Sketch’ Pair & Music Doc Backed By Idris Elba; Simu Liu To Guest On ‘Dragons’ Den’". Deadline Hollywood, May 23, 2024.
  12. ^ a b Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans". CityNews, June 5, 2024.
  13. ^ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Yahoo! News, June 6, 2024.
  14. ^ Stuart Derdeyn, "Vancouver to host the 54th Juno Awards in 2025". Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2024.